Global Warming Reader A Century of Writing about Climate Change

ISBN-10: 0143121898

ISBN-13: 9780143121893

Edition: 2012

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Our most widely respected environmental writer brings together the essential voices on global warming, from its 19th-century discovery to the presentWhat is happening to our planet? And what can we do about it? The Global Warming Readerprovides more than thirty-five answers to these burning questions, from more than one hundred years of engagement with the topic. Here is Elizabeth Kolbert's groundbreaking essay "The Darkening Sea," Michael Crichton's skeptical view of climate change, George Monbiot's biting indictment of those who are really using up the planet's resources, NASA scientist James Hansen's testimony before the U.S. Congress, and clarion calls for action by Al Gore, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein, and many others. The Global Warming Readeris a comprehensive resource, expertly edited by someone who lives and breathes this defining issue of our time.

Bill McKibben grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. He was president of the Harvard Crimson newspaper in college. Immediately after college he joined the New Yorker magazine as a staff writer, and wrote much of the "Talk of the Town" column from 1982 to early 1987. After quitting this job, he soon moved to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in the New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. Several editions have come out in the United States, including an updated version published in 2006. His next book, The Age of Missing Information, was published in 1992. It is an account of an experiment: McKibben collected everything that came across the 100 channels of cable tv on the Fairfax, Virginia system (at the time among the nation's largest) for a single day. He spent a year watching the 2,400 hours of videotape, and then compared it to a day spent on the mountaintop near his home. This book has been widely used in colleges and high schools, and was reissued in 2006. McKibben's latest book is entitled, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. Bill currently resides with his wife, writer Sue Halpern, and his daughter, Sophie in Ripton, Vermont. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. 030

Introduction

Science

On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground

The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature

Carbon Dioxide Exchange between Atmosphere and Ocean and the Question of an Increase of Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> during the Past Decades

The Keeling Curve

Statement of Dr. James Hansen

Summary for Policymakers: The Science of Climate Change IPCC Working Group I

The "Anthropocene"

The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change

Target Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>: Where Should Humanity Aim?

Causes of the Russian Heat Wave and Pakistani Floods

Politics

from Earth in the Balance

"The Battle for Control of Reality" from The Heat Is On

Remarks at the Kyoto Climate Change Conference

"Is Your Stomach Too Full?" from Earth Odyssey

The Science of Climate Change: Senate Floor Statement

from State of Fear

from An Inconvenient Truth

from The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Climate Generation:! The Evolution of the Energy Action Coalition's Strategy

To Really Save the Planet, Stop Going Green

Climate Rage

This Is Fucked Up-It's Time to Get Mad, and Then Busy

The Green Generation

The Population Myth

Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near

Speech at Klimaforum

Impact

from The End of Nature

John 5:1-9

Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action

An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security

"The Briefing" from Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers

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